Sunday 13 January 2013

Budget proposals

Councillors will meet on February 14th to set the council tax for 2013-14. According to council finance officials, based on current assumptions, the council requires to identify budget savings totalling £6.5m in order to achieve a council tax freeze.
In previous years the Conservative Group has moved an alternative budget by identifying additional savings to those proposed by the administration. We also tried to allocate funding to different priority areas and on occasion we were able to propose a reduction in the level of council tax while protecting important services.
I think local residents should have a say in how the council provides services on their behalf and so I would be interested to hear from Dundee council tax payers and service users about how the council might save money or do things differently to improve services and increase efficiency.  Send me an email and let me know what you think.